MeatBlog

A selection of quotes lifted from http://xlbx.wordpress.com/. All intelligent responses fielded.

“Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the
wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile
accidents combined. If beef is your idea of ‘real food for real
people,’ you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.”
- Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

“People who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for
meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by their cruelty . . .
that is God at work.”
- Fleur Wiorkowski

“The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

“Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, ‘I think I’ll
drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze ‘em!’?”
- Calvin & Hobbes

“About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to
produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person
for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a
person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will
feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by
humans in the form of livestock products.”
- M.E. Ensminger, Ph.D.

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
- James A. Froude (1818-1894)

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We
feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we’re
not contributing to their pain.”
- Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney

“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can
be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and
justice cannot dwell together.”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I believe that veganism is something we must
adopt to cleanse the earth of the damage that the meat, fishing and
diary industries have caused to global eco-systems.”
- Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Society

Update on below: I received a very positive response from Ian Hunt in customer relations. He was both apologetic and helpful in equal measures. So much so that within a couple of conversations we had a great evening planned. That is, until he got distracted and let us down at the last minute. We went to St John over the road and had a cracking night with some incredible food.

“Dear Canteen,

PS. You do at least make a nice pie.”

I have just cracked into a bar of Mo’s Bacon Bar chocolate (pictured). A present from Simon bought in Japan, imported from USA and then re-exported as hand luggage to my fridge. Where it has sat for three weeks – being diabetic, I have to wait until the time is right for these things.

Chocolate is brilliant, no debate. Bacon is better, small debate but the House has it. Combine the two and we have the potential for a gastronomic Event Horizon.

Consider then, the hypoglycaemic, adrenaline charged culmination of a three week anticipation of bacon-chocolate ecstasy and I’m afraid the bar was never going to make the grade. Too much hype and too much hypo.

Bacon and chocolate are games for different bedrooms. Like introducing your wife to your girlfriend and hoping they’ll get along. Bad, bad, bad idea.

Still soooo good